THE SEVEN CHAKRA SYSTEM(TANTRA CHAKRA YOGA)

Each center (chakra) represents an area of human activity
The goal is to bring each center into loving and healthy harmony with yourself and the world

The purpose of HELM

The goal of the HELM website is to help us become whole, integrated, balanced, mature, and complete human beings who understand and master the human experience. It also includes a spiritual component that helps us realize our greater identity as the eternal, immortal, totality of existence.

We follow the law of "kiss" - keep, it, simple, spiritual. We feel that anybody can study and learn the spiritual wisdoms here at HELM. If there is anything you cannot understand then please contact us using the contact form on the contact page. Thanks.

We can quickly understand and interpret all of life's
activities as expressions of the seven centers.

We can learn how to live a balanced, enjoyable, useful and conscious life.

It is essential to befriend the seven chakras

It is absolutely essential to befriend the seven chakras. It is the entirely correct attitude to have towards them. Befriending them will make this journey of understanding, purifying, healing, and further energetic work all the more easy. Please take time each day to sit for a few minutes, start with the heart chakra, and befriend each of the seven chakras.

THE SEVEN NATURAL DRIVES OF EACH CHAKRA

Holistic health concerns the healthy and
appropriate pacifying and satisfying of each of the major seven drives (areas of
activity) of the human form.

Throughout the growth and development
stages of the individual's lifetime, each center (chakra) becomes naturally active
(awakened).

If we do not understand the functioning of the seven centers, then
we will not understand our life.

If we do not understand the seven centers then
we may become confused, irrationally fearful, and feel deep underlying and
seemingly inexplicable discontent as these different areas of our life awaken
and new drives need to be pacified.

When we don't understand things then we have
the tendency to repress that area of life, and this leads to discontent,
depression, and dis-ease - we feel uncomfortable and unskilled about exploring
and pacifying that area of our life.

For example, the awakening of the crown
chakra is accompanied by the drive to explore and pacify the question "Who
am I?" and eventually leads to realization of the mystery of
Existence. If we don't
understand the appearance of this drive (center
seven) in our life, then we may feel very
uncomfortable about the sudden persistent need to pacify this drive.

By using HELM, you will understand the human experience and be able to offer
many skillful services to others - including Holistic Life Management.

THE SEVEN SELFISH ATTACHMENTS TO THE SEVEN CHAKRAS AND THE CONSEQUENCES

The individual is a trustee and a channel of the experiences of variety and diversity (within each and all chakras) that we experience within The Creation. We experience that which happens within our lives but we do not possess that which we experience. Everything is created by and belongs to The Eternal Totality of Existence - the deepest, highest, and most Real, One Eternal Self, Creator and Experiencer of The Creation.

CHAKRA
ONE: Base/root chakra: Attachment to material possessions and the physical body.Greed, miserliness, hoarding, preventing others from meeting their daily needs, putting others into neediness, debt, poverty, destitution, starvation, and slavery. Fear of death and clinging to bodily life and all its experiences. Spiritual ignorance concerning the reality of the soul and its reincarnation. Sorrow and grief at the death of the physical bodies of others.

CHAKRA
FOUR: Heart chakra: Possessive egotistical attachment and selfish clining to the objects of our love, and hatred for those that seperate us from these attachments.Allow those that you love the freedom to find their independence so that they may grow and blossom in full health. Love wisely, without attachment. have compassion for those experiencing weakness and ignorance, but respect the sacred space of your home. help should be given at arms length, skillfully, and professionally, so that you are not harmed by the violence of ignorance.

CHAKRA
SIX: Brow chakra: Attachment to the activities of the mindEgotistical possesiveness concerning ideas. The failure to realise that the mind, thought, and imagination are universal experiences and we only act as a channel (conduit) for the grounding of ideas into the human level of existence.

the seven CENTERS ARE THE Central teachings OF all religions and HOLISTIC Life Management Systems

For example:

Yoga

Taoism

Tai Chi

Buddhism

Western Alchemical Tradition

modern psychology

Gurdjieff

Rudolph Steiner

Sufism

Osho

The Christian Sacraments

The Kabbalah

The Seven Rays

The Celtic Cros

The Gnostic Tradition

The True Teachings of Christ

The Microcosmic and Macrocosmic expression and experiences of the seven chakras

Microcosmic means expression and experience at the level of the individual (ref: this document)

Macrocosmic means expression and experience at; the level of the species, the level of a planet, the level of all species and all planets, the level of the Entire Creation, and the level of the One, Eternal, Permanent aspects of the Self

CHAKRA

INDIVIDUAL

SPECIES

PLANET

CREATION

THE REAL SELF

ONE/BASE

Physical body/physical matter

All the physical bodies of all individuals within the species

All the individuals in each species and also the planetary being (gaia)

The expression and experiences of physical matter

The dimension of physical matter within the Creation as an expression of the Self's creative imagination

TWO

sensuality and sexuality/fluid

the relationship to sensualtiy, sexuality, and fluidity within all individuals within the species

The expressions and experiences of fluids within the planet

The expression and experiences of fluids within the Creation

The dimension of sensuality, sexuality, reproduction, and fluidity within the Creation as an expression of the Self's creative imagination

THREE

Power and vitality

the relationship to power and vitality within all individuals within the species

The expressions and experiences of force, power, fire, reactions within the planet

The expression and experiences of reaction, fire, and force

The dimension of power, vitality, reaction, fire, and force within the Creation as an expression of the Self's creative imagination

FOUR

Virtue, Love, Wisdom, Soul, Healing

the relationship to Virtue, Love, Wisdom, Soul, the quantum field (chi, prana, prakriti, shakti), Healing within all individuals within the species

The expressions and experiences of the quantum field (chi, prana, prakriti, shakti), Gases, Virtue, Love, Wisdom, Soul, Healing within the planet

The dimension of the quantum field (chi, prana, prakriti, shakti), Gases, Virtue, Love, Wisdom, Soul, Healing within the Creation as an expression of the Self's creative imagination

FIVE

All forms of communication: input and output

The relationship to communication within all individuals within the species

The expressions and experiences of communication within the planet

The expressions and experiences of communication

The dimension of expressions and experiences of communication as an expression of the Self's creative imagination

SIX

The Thinking Mind: intellect and imagination

The relationship to the thinking mind within all individuals within the species

The expressions and experiences of the thinking mind within the planet

The expressions and experiences of the thinking mind within the entire Creation

The dimension of expressions and experiences of the thinking mind as an expression of the Self's creative imagination

SEVEN

The One Unified Permanent Self. The true identity of all life, universes, and everything (including areas of The Self that are outside of the Creation)

The relationship to The One Unified Permanent Self within all individuals within the species

The expressions and experiences of The One Unified Permanent Self within the planet

The expressions and experiences of The One Unified Permanent Self within the entire Creation

The One Unified Permanent Self. The true identity of all life, universes, and everything (including areas of The Self that are outside of the Creation)

GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT V'S STAGNATION AND
RETARDATION

The contemporary western medical and psychological model focuses mainly on the development of the body and the intellect, but the functions of a human being are more than just these two aspects. Human beings have seven major areas of functioning which are represented by the seven chakra system. Growth and development, or stagnation and retardation, can occur in one or more of the chakras. This is something that the contemporary western medical model often overlooks.

LEARNING TO MASTER OUR SEVEN CHAKRAS

Having become aware of the existence of the seven chakras of the human experience and the area of life that each one represents we now need to learn how to master their experiences.

we need to learn how to be in control of chakras 1,2,3,5, and 6 - the worldly chakras.

we need to learn how to form a private, independent, and enquiring relationship with the seventh chakra; Transcendent and Spiritual consideration and experiences.

CHAKRA HEALTH AND HEALING

We may also need to heal our
life. The process of looking at our experiences of and attitudes to each of the
seven centers and replacing negative attitudes with more positive one. We
will need to understand and heal past traumatic and negative
experiences; for example - the family, romantic partners, teachers, and other important relationships.

Aura is a traditional term for the protective psychic and spiritual energy fields that surround and penetrate the physical body. Historically, artists depict halos around the heads of individuals to denote their spirituality. Biblically, writers refer to the raiment or countenance of light in an attempt to describe the field of spiritual energy around angels, men, and women. It is from this invisible atmosphere that we receive our first impression of people. We use common-sense terms such as blue mood , red with anger, green with envy, full of energy, or radiant beauty. Such terms are similar to how individuals with spiritual sight describe the aura. From this intuitive nature, we form impressions and experience emotions and feelings regarding them and ourselves. Quantum physics describes the universe as energy. Psychology, Eastern therapy, and complementary medicine have terms for life as energy. Yoga psychology views the aura as an energy field surrounding the body, interacting through spiritual and psychological levels via structures called chakras.

So we may conclude that the aura is an energy field that surrounds the physical body. It encircles each of us as the sun's rays encircle the sun or the halo that surrounds the moon. The appearance of the aura, whether attractive or repulsive, depends on one's physical health, mental attitudes, and spiritual development. The human aura is a dynamic matrix that includes the physical, emotional, and mental-spiritual aspects of self. The aura is the self as energy. All the contributing factors in our daily life register in our aura as colors, lines, dots, emanations, and vibrations. Every one of us is different, and our hidden selves are expressed through the aura. Those individuals who live on a strictly physical, mental, and material level have an entirely different emanation than those individuals who are intellectual and spiritual.

the nadis within the subtle energy body

The sanskrit word nadi means "flow" or "current". The ancient texts say that there are 72,000 nadis in the subtle energy body. Like the chakras, the nadis are part of the subtle energy body, and correspond to the nerves - but the nadis are not the nerves (as is often mistaken).

The current flowing at any particular time may be gauged by noting the flow of breath in the nostrils.

When the left nostril has a greater flow of air, then ida nadi is predominant; mental energy is dominant, the mind is introverted, and mental work may be undertaken.

When the flow is greater in the right nostril then pingala is predominant; there is more vital energy for physical work, digestion of food, the mind is extroverted, and the body generates more heat.

If the flow is equal, then sushumna is predominant and the system is in a balanced harmony (sattvic mode).

Alternate nostril breathing can bring the nadis into a balanced flow.

Alternate nostrils are closed, generally by using the right hand's thumb, ring finger, and little finger. The thumb is used for closing the right nostril and the ring and little fingers are used to close the left nostril. The mouth is closed, and is not used for breathing.

The cycle of alternate nostril breathing is:

The right nostril is closed with the thumb. Air is exhaled through the left nostril, and inhaled back through the same nostril.

The left nostril is closed with the ring finger. Air is exhaled through the right nostril, and inhaled back through the same nostril.

This is repeated at a normal breathing rate. It is advisable to have an inhale:exhale ratio of 1:2. Changing nostril after exhaling is considered wrong.

Meditation becomes easier and more fruitful when the nadis are balanced.

THE KABBALAH

Above is a diagram of the Hebrew "Tree of Life", The Kabbalah, and also you will
notice The Seven Chakras, and The Symbol of The Cross. These three symbolic systems are all mapped
onto one diagram and this one diagram can be used as our 'Generic
Template of Human Life.'

Kabbalah
Sefirah

Sefirah
Attributes.

Christian
Sacrament

Chakra Name
and
Number.

Stage
of
Individual
Development

Approximate
Age when
the Stage
occurs.

Shekhinah.

Creation

Baptism

1. Mooladhara.

Birth and Infancy.

1 - 2

Yesod.

Foundation.

Communion

2. Swadhisthana.

Child and Juvenile

2 - 11

Hod and Nezah.

Majesty
and
Endurance

Confirmation

3. Manipura.

Adolescent.

11 - 18

Tif'eret.

Beauty

Marriage

4. Anahata

Young Adult.

18 - 28

Gevurah
and
Hesed

Judgement
and
Mercy

Confession
(out with the old)

5. Visuddha

Early
Responsible
Adulthood.

28 - 35

Binah
and
Hokhmah

Understanding
and
Wisdom

Ordination

6. Ajna

Developed
Responsible
Adulthood.

35 - 55

Keter

Spiritual
Realisation
and

Ultimate

Peace

Extreme Unction

7. Sahasrara

Mature Years.

55 - 75

With this diagram we can understand human life and The Stages of Individual Development that we find in modern
psychology. The Seven Chakras are also the central teaching of The Seven Rays as taught by Alice Bailey.

The core teachings of All Spiritual and Psychological Systems are also
represented on this diagram.

The Chakras and The Christian Sacraments

It is no coincidence that the words "chakra" and "sacra" are almost identical because they are referring to the same thing - the chakras!